Berkeley Law - Faculty Profiles

Eric Biber

Eric Biber's teaching and research interests are environmental and
natural resources law, administrative law, and property. Prior to
joining Berkeley in 2006, he worked as a litigator in the Denver office
of Earthjustice, a public-interest nonprofit organization specializing
in public lands and other environmental cases. Biber taught public lands
law as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Denver Sturm
College of Law in fall 2005. He is a member of both the Colorado and
California bars.

Biber earned a master's of environmental science with a focus in
conservation biology from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental
Studies and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Following law school, Biber
clerked for Judge Carlos Lucero of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals in Denver and Judge Judith Rogers of the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the D.C. Circuit.

Biber's scholarship has appeared in a wide range of law reviews,
including the University of Chicago Law Review, UCLA Law Review,
University of Colorado Law Review, Harvard Environmental Law Review,
Environmental Law, NYU Environmental Law Journal, and
Administrative Law Review. Biber's UCLA Law Review article
"Officious Intermeddlers or Citizen Experts? Petitions and Public
Production of Information in Environmental Law" (co-authored with Berry
Brosi) was selected by a national survey of environmental law professors
as one of the top ten law review articles in the field of environmental
law in 2011; the article was also selected as one of the top pieces of
scholarship produced by junior legal scholars at the Stanford/Yale
Junior Faculty Form in June, 2010. Biber's Harvard Environmental Law
Review/article "Too Many Things to Do: How to Deal with the
Dysfunctions of Multiple-Goal Agencies" was also selected for the
Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum in June, 2008. Biber's University of
Colorado Law Review article "The Problem of Environmental Monitoring"
was selected as one of the top policy-relevant environmental law
articles of 2011-12 by the Environmental Law Institute's Environmental
Law and Policy Annual Review. Biber has published in several leading
peer-reviewed natural science and social science journals, including
Society and Natural Resources, Frontiers in Ecology and Environment,
Ecography, and Science.

At Berkeley, Biber teaches courses in Property, Public Lands and Natural
Resources Law, Biodiversity Law, and Environmental Law and Policy. He
also helps lead the Environmental Law Writing Seminar.

Education:

A.B, Harvard College (1995)J.D., Yale Law School (2001)M.S., Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (2001)